The UK government is trying to highlight the importance of health checks for men and improving access as part of wider work to improve men’s health, the health minister Maria Caulfield has told MPs.
While there were no plans for a men’s health strategy, she said that the Department for Health and Social Care was in the process of recruiting a men’s health ambassador—a role first announced in November that is yet to be filled.1 Research suggests that men are less likely than women to take up an offer of a health check.2 …